If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWTherefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
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For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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